A vibrant survey of the trends and talents across the globe fuelling street photography today and a fresh take of what street photography is and can be

A world tour of the very best street photography today, Reclaim the Street showcases work by more than 100 contemporary photographers, from the established to the emerging, from all corners of the globe: here is work by Indian practitioner Swarat Ghosh, Thai photographer Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet (aka Poupay), and the Brazilian photographer Gustavo Minas. Truly diverse in scope, it pays long overdue attention to flourishing scenes throughout the world, interweaving thirty-four photographer portfolios, in-depth case studies, and surveys of the geographical hotspots where communities of street photographers are thriving today. Great photographic minds don’t think alike, nor are two streets identical: follow these photographers as they capture snapshots of people and places perpetually in flux.

The global, and ultimately optimistic and humanistic edge of Reclaim the Street will deepen its readers’ love of photography, as well as leave them inspired by the places and people captured through today’s sharpest lenses.

About the Author:

Stephen McLaren is the co-author of the acclaimed Street Photography Now and editor of Magnum Streetwise. A writer for the British Journal of Photography, he has also presented histories of street photography at Tate Liverpool, The School of Life and various international street photography festivals. Matt Stuart is one of the leading street photographers working today and the author of All That Life Can Afford and Think Like a Street Photographer. He has exhibited his work and taught street photography all over the globe.

Імпульс робити відверті, нерепетовані фотографії в публічному просторі є наріжним каменем вуличної фотографії та є частиною ДНК Magnum з моменту його заснування в 1947 році.

Амбітний за масштабом і демократичний за своєю природою Magnum Streetwise — це екскурсія по фотографіях і практиках, які допомогли визначити, чим є і чим може бути вулична фотографія, яку неможливо пропустити. Фотографи Magnum, такі як Анрі Картьє-Брессон, започаткували «сучасні» концепції вуличної фотографії ще до того, як цей термін був створений. Але їхній вплив далеко не історичний. Багатий шов вуличної фотографії проходить через серце Magnum донині, як у роботах визнаних майстрів вуличної фотографії, таких як Ервітт, Парр, Гілден і Калвар, так і тих, хто навіть не вважає себе вуличним фотографом; постійний вплив, який не залишився непоміченим серед нинішнього покоління початківців вуличних фотографів і шанувальників.

Відредагований Стівеном Маклареном, Magnum Streetwise — це справжнє візуальне свято, яке переплітає проникливі тексти та анекдоти в інтуїтивно зрозумілому поєднанні фотографів і тематичних портфоліо, досліджуючи не лише роботи видатних фотографів, але й те, як концептуально та концептуально розглядалися звичайні теми (місця дозвілля, ринки, подорожі) і місця (Париж, Нью-Йорк, Токіо). практично, через агентство та протягом століть.

Magnum Streetwise є важливим доповненням до бібліографії вуличної фотографії, демонструючи приховані перлини поряд з багатьма найвідомішими зображеннями цього жанру.

Перегляньте понад 300 найкращих вуличних фотографій понад 60 легендарних іміджмейкерів Magnum, зокрема Анрі Картьє-Брессона, Елліота Ервітта, Мартіна Парра, Мартіни Франк, Брюса Гілдена та Сьюзан Мейзелас.

Про автора:

Стівен Макларен – фотограф, письменник і куратор із Лос-Анджелеса. Він є співавтором трьох попередніх книг Thames & Hudson: Street Photography Now, Photographers’ Sketchbooks та Family Photography Now.

The definitive anthology of contemporary street photography across the globe

Get up close and personal with the world's best street photographers as they capture the drama of everyday life at 1/125 of a second.

Rub shoulders with high-rollers, street vendors and dog walkers. Prowl sidewalks and back alleys, encountering comic absurdities, small acts of kindness and scenes of unexpected beauty. Let your eye be caught by a witty billboard, a woman dressed as an angel, a businessman sprinting through the crowd. The human carnival is in town and the streets are alive.

Street Photography Now presents 46 contemporary image-makers noted for their candid depictions of everyday life in our streets, subways, shopping malls, beaches and parks. Included are Magnum masters such as Bruce Gilden, Martin Parr and Alex Webb, along with an international cast of emerging photographers whose individual biographies illuminate the stories behind their pictures of New York, Tokyo, Delhi or Dakar. Four thought-provoking essays and a global conversation between leading street photographers explore the compelling and often controversial issues in the genre. A select bibliography and a resource section for aspiring street photographers complete the book.

Whether you're a follower of contemporary photography or simply a lover of the theatre of everyday life, this is your passport to the world of the street photographer, a world where ordinary public spaces offer up endless surprise.

Table of Contents:

Essay 1 ‘Stare, Pry, Listen, Eavesdrop’ • 12 photographer portfolios/biographies (Agou-Gilden) • Essay 2 ‘No Ideas But in Things’ • 12 photographer portfolios/biographies (Girard-Marlow) • Essay 3 ‘Half of the World’s Population Now Lives in Cities’ • 12 photographer portfolios biographies (Mermelstein–Savelev) • Essay 4 ‘Some Truths Cannot Be Told Except as Fiction • 10 photographer portfolios/biographies (Snoek-Zuborn) • Street Photography Now: A Global Conversation

A bold anthology that explores how photographers worldwide are tackling the maelstrom of family life

Family Photography Now presents 40 international image-makers who have turned their lens on the complex dynamics of the family, whether their own or other people's. On these pages, you will find Swedish stay-at-home dads and Congolese first-time mothers, families with same-sex parents and families with identical twins, blended families and extended families, portraits made via Skype and portraits of imaginary families. Sophisticated art projects appear alongside highly personal images, many never before published in book form.

From Magnum member Trent Parke’s darkly amusing shots of life in suburban Australia and Denis Dailleux’s portraits of Egyptian bodybuilders and their mothers to Elina Brotherus’s devastating records of failed IVF and Nadia Sablin’s elegy to her elderly aunts in rural Russia, this book takes readers on powerful journeys that are by turns moving, funny, thought-provoking and inspiring, encouraging us to reflect on how we photograph our own families.

Complete with profiles revealing each photographer’s story and working methodology, and two essays analyzing the complications of family attachments and the ways in which these have been captured in photography of many genres and moods, this book will appeal to photographers both professional and amateur, and to anyone who has ever been intrigued by the dramas that are ordinarily played out behind closed doors.

About the Authors:

Sophie Howarth is a writer, teacher, curator and entrepreneur based in London. Co-founder of the School of Life, she has also been Curator of Public Programmes at Tate Modern and an Associate Curator for Artangel.

Stephen McLaren is a photographer, writer and curator based in San Francisco.

A refreshing and eye-opening behind-the-scenes exploration of the art of contemporary photography, richly illustrated with rarely seen works-in-progress from nearly fifty of today’s most original practitioners

Photography is so much more than pushing a button. It is a way of seeing, a way of life, a grasping of life. At the same time it involves an enormous amount of preparatory work, research, and trial and error.

All photographers – the visually restless, the diarists, the experimenters, the R&D obsessives, the collectors and the cross-genre free-wheelers – know this as they dream of future pictures and agonize over the next big project. They create speculative work that may blossom into something important, or wind up in a box under the bed – or its virtual equivalent.

This book offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the working methods of nearly 50 photographers from around the world.

In their own words, they present selections from their ‘sketchbooks’: everything from Polaroid studies to smartphone snaps, diaries, found photography, installations, zines, blogs and online photo streams alongside traditional contact sheets, photo albums and book dummies.

With over 500 images, Photographers’ Sketchbooks is a compelling insight into the ways professional photographers realize a personal vision.

About the Authors:
 
Stephen McLaren is a photographer, writer and curator based in San Francisco.

Bryan Formhals is a photographer and writer, and the founding editor of LPV Magazine.